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Thread ID: 139009 2015-02-23 05:54:00 Broadband speed tests mzee (3324) PC World Chat
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1394901 2015-02-23 05:54:00 For two days now the Broadband Speed test through Spark & Vodafone have been about 3.56 Mbps down, in both Auckland and Wellington.
All other servers average 17 Mbps. Why should this be?

My ISP server is in Wellington, I am in Auckland. Does the ISP location make any difference?
mzee (3324)
1394902 2015-02-23 14:20:00 For two days now the Broadband Speed test through Spark & Vodafone have been about 3.56 Mbps down, in both Auckland and Wellington.
All other servers average 17 Mbps. Why should this be?

My ISP server is in Wellington, I am in Auckland. Does the ISP location make any difference?The question that begs to be asked is... how many locations do you use the Internet from at the same time? :stare:
Greg (193)
1394903 2015-02-23 22:17:00 Testing *to* pretty much anything in NZ should always give you 90% of your line sync speed. Somethings quite wrong if you're not getting it.
Do a test to Sydney and another test to California and see what you get there also.
Chilling_Silence (9)
1394904 2015-02-24 02:55:00 The question that begs to be asked is... how many locations do you use the Internet from at the same time? :stare:

Begs to be asked ? Why? :stare: :banana
Terry Porritt (14)
1394905 2015-02-24 03:48:00 It's a free-range question, and being free has to beg due to a lack of funds. :waughh: R2x1 (4628)
1394906 2015-02-25 05:03:00 Begs to be asked ? Why? :stare: :banana

Unfair to ask anything remotely technical in this quarter.
Cicero (40)
1394907 2015-02-25 06:11:00 Testing *to* pretty much anything in NZ should always give you 90% of your line sync speed. Somethings quite wrong if you're not getting it.
Do a test to Sydney and another test to California and see what you get there also.
Hi,
I have just made some tests:
Vodafone has recovered today.

Ping: Destination: Down: Up: ISP:
184 San Francisco 5.14 4.99
49 Sydney 14.08 9.21
16 Wellington 18.27 9.30 City Link
16 Wellington 16.18 9.29 Vodafone
35 Wellington 12.23 9.30 Spark
25 Auckland 13.97 9.29 Spark
25 Auckland 14.43 9.31 Vodafone
25 Auckland 15.35 9.27 Orcon
28 Tauranga 13.82 9.33 Trustpower
192 Hong Kong 4.70 5.70 STC

Our ISP: Globe Net Communications/Actrix Wellington.
Line rate Up: 9833
Line rate Down: 23477
mzee (3324)
1394908 2015-02-25 10:41:00 It's not *bad* but it could be better? Chilling_Silence (9)
1394909 2015-02-26 07:55:00 It's not *bad* but it could be better?

Today I ran "Auslogics Boost Speed 7" program. The down speed is now 20 Mbps, just under the line speed. Latency is also down. This is on WiFi so could be even faster plugged in.
mzee (3324)
1394910 2015-02-26 23:07:00 Programs like that make no difference to the speed of your internet connection and likley no difference to the speed of your PC. I would run an Anti-Malware program like MalwareBytes to get rid of any nasties that software has installed. Alex B (15479)
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